Religion is a Disease

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold
misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in
early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time
they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any
others.